Everything's Bigger in Australia (Especially the Elon Musk Con-Job)

Australia will be home to the latest renewable energy con-job: a big expensive battery created by Elon Musk and paid for by the poor long-suffering South Australian taxpayer.

Sometimes you here it said “everything’s big in Texas”. Well, I’m saying that if you reckon that, you ain’t been to Australia. We LOVE big things here Down Under.

We’ve got the big banana, the big redback spider, the big lobster, the big pineapple, the big potato, the big penguin, the big Ned Kelly, the big boxing crocodile, the big mango, the big gumboot, the big kangaroo, the big milkshake container, the big beercan, and perhaps my favourite, the big bogan. I love the big bogan, with his beer can and stubbies.

Now we’ve actually got a government in Australia sponsoring more big things.

The South Australian government led by the wild leftie Jay Weatherill has gone after a target of 50% renewable energy.

Now he thinks that a big battery will solve South Australia’s energy problems.

In reality, the big battery will only add marginal benefit. It’s just another con-job on the poor long-suffering taxpayer.

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Australia has the largest reserves of Uranium in the world……..we sell it to France amongst other countries…..France has 58 nuclear reactors operated by Electricite de France with a total capacity of 63.2 GWe supplying 436 TWh of electricity in 2014 which is 77.5% of the total generated there….thats a heap of energy to satisfy 67million people….so if we had 58 of the same energy plants scattered around the counrty of Australia our power would be nearly free…we would have heaps spare….and we could save our fossil fuel assets and develop them as activated carbons with our coal and supply all sorts of industries with high quality product that is used in water filtration and water treatment and a multitude of other manufactured products………..gosh – our power might be sooo cheap that we can foster highly automated manufacturing industries right here again ……one has to wonder why The Greens arent permanently boycotting France and their clean environment for being so irresponsible………oh thats right coz if we highlight France and talk positively about it do all this we will have lots of jobs and a green environment so there will be no need for radical overpaid armies of alarmist scaremongers anymore….

John Ireland commented
2017-07-26 05:21:32 -0400

Why has Wetherill never published the cost of the battery. this would likely be the worlds most expensive electriciy

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Emmanuel Carydis commented
2017-07-18 23:38:15 -0400

The best direction is actually not Uranium but Thorium based generation nuclear power plants:

The main reason that Thorium Furnaces are the way to go are:
1) Thorium reactors are subcritical ie. can not have a melt down.
2) 75% less nuclear waste than conventional reactors
3) The waste that is produced is only radioactive for approx. 500 years as opposed to 250,000 years as is the case with conventional reactors.
4) Thorium reactors can incinerate the nuclear waste from conventional reactors, hence dealing with our current issue there.
5) Thorium reactors do not produce weapons grade nuclear by-products.
6) There is 4 times more easily mined Thorium available than Uranium
7) It is estimated that there is only enough easily mineable Uranium for the next 150 years, but there is enough Thorium to run Australia for at least 5,000 years on today’s consumption levels.
8) No CO2 emissions.
9) Australia not only has the largest deposit of Uranium in the world but also has the one of the largest Thorium deposits.
10) Walk away safe.

Yes, GO NUCLEAR…..We’ll build some reactors next to your place Mark. We have more than enough gas in Australia, being sold cheaply to our overseas trading countries. The ROTTEN gas companies are SCREWING US and BLACKMAILING US into land-based and coastal gas drilling rigs for yet more gas. Who was the IDIOT who started shutting down our coal-fired power stations? With around 29 million solar panels on domestic and commercial roofs the demand for power was substantially reduced, and the power companies did notice this. RENEWABLES IS THEONLYWAY TO GO…..ANDYOUKNOW IT.!!!

Brian Watson-Will commented
2017-07-17 00:32:14 -0400

Yes, GO NUCLEAR…..We’ll build some reactors next to your place Mark. We have more than enough gas in Australia, being sold cheaply to our overseas trading countries. The ROTTEN gas companies are SCREWING US and BLACKMAILING US into land-based and coastal gas drilling rigs for yet more gas. Who was the IDIOT who started shutting down our coal-fired power stations? With around 29 million solar panels on domestic and commercial roofs the demand for power was substantially reduced, and the power companies did notice this. RENEWABLES IS THEONLYWAY TO GO…..ANDYOUKNOW IT.!!!

Scott Turner commented
2017-07-16 19:56:49 -0400

It does sound better than malcolm turnbull plan for the snowy river, however there was not cost benefit analysis to this impulse purchase. I wonder how long will this battery last, how often will we need to purchase a battery from this single vendor not just for expansion but all batteries have a expiry date.

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2017-07-16 17:50:10 -0400

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